Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.
DONALD RUMSFELDYour performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
More Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.
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What you measure improves.” A corollary rule in the military is that “You get what you inspect, not what you expect.
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Preserve the President’s options. He may need them.
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Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.
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Don’t blame the boss. He has enough problems.
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Let’s stick something in the ground and not pretend that it’s perfect.
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If we know anything, it is that weakness is provocative.
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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
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There are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don’t know.
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Agreement can always be reached by increasing the generality of the conclusion; when this is done, the form is generally preserved but only the illusion of policy is created.
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If you try to please everybody, somebody’s not going to like it.
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Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
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The way to do well is to do well.
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It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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If in doubt, don’t. If still in doubt, do what’s right.
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